{"id":507490,"date":"2026-06-19T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/507490\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:40:08","slug":"universal-music-korea-signs-1300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/507490\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Music Korea Signs 1300"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t1300 has its sights set on South Korea and the rest of the world through a new deal struck with Universal Music Korea.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor the past several years, the Korean-Australian hip-hop act that has been making waves in the land down under, where they\u2019ve completed two sold-out national tours and performed live for the 2025 ABC New Year\u2019s Eve concert, beamed out from the Sydney Opera House.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlending rap, electronic music and wicked humor, 1300 has shared stages with the likes of Jay Park, Audrey Nuna, Genesis Owusu, and Confidence Man, and graced the pages of the NME, Esquire Australia, Billboard Philippines, The Guardian, PAPER Magazine, Hypebeast Korea, and more. On the festivals front, they\u2019ve appearing at SummerStage\u2019s Aussie BBQ in NYC in 2023, and featured in Netflix\u2019s viral reboot of Heartbreak High.<\/p>\n

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\n\tCritical and commercial success has poured in. Along the way, the lads have been shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize (2022), won the triple j and Rage Australian music video of the year\u00a0for \u201cOldboy\u201d and earned artist of the week nods from several broadcasters, including triple j Unearthed, and been awarded the Australia Council\u2019s Arts Project and Contemporary Touring grants.<\/p>\n

\n\tComprised of rappers DALI, goyo, rako, and producers Nerdie and pokari, 1300 formed in west Sydney in 2021. Since then, they\u2019ve amassed a catalog that includes fan faves \u201cLalaland,\u201d \u201cBrr,\u201d \u201cNo Caller ID,\u201d \u201cSmashmouth,\u201d \u201cOldboy,\u201d \u201cRocksta,\u201d and \u201cSteve Jobs\u201d featuring Kwame, along with the mixtapes Foreign Language and GEORGE, plus their Valentine\u2019s Day EP <3 (pronounced \u201cless than three\u201d), (pronounced \u201cless than three\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe major-label deal signals \u201ca significant next step\u201d for 1300, reads a statement, as they continue expanding their global reach and introducing their \u201cgenre-defying sound\u201d to audiences around the globe.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo celebrate the new arrangement, a debut album ILLSAMGONGONG will drop next month through UMK.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to welcome 1300 to UMK,\u201d comments Calvin Wong, CEO of Universal Music Group Southeast Asia and Korea, & senior VP of Asia. \u201cThey combine a fresh, alternative, sound with a dynamic energy that resonates instantly. I look forward to helping them create new opportunities, connect with fans, and together take their music across Asia and the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAhead of the new album release, 1300 will unveil the first pre-release single on next Wednesday, June 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1300 has its sights set on South Korea and the rest of the world through a new deal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[13724,93,61,60,278,21649],"class_list":["post-507490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bbnews","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-universal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}